Improvement in washing-machines



H. H. MESSENGER. WashngfMahines.v

,NOQQ` Patented April 14, 1874.

UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. MESSENGER, OF LEON, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,592, dated April14, 1874; application iiled October 15, 1873.

vTo all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HAYs MESSEN- GER, of Leon, Decatur county, inthe State of Iowa, have invented a Washing-Machine, of which thefollowing-is a specification:

My invention' consists in a device for condensing and forcing airthrough the clothes.

The drawing is a sectional view of the machine.

A is the cylinder, containing the interior parts of the machine. B isthe piston-rod, working at the top of the cylinder. O is thepiston-head. It contains the valve D, by means of whichthe canvasbellows E is lled with air when the piston-rod is drawn upward.

This bellows E :is attached to the piston-headV by a draw-string, and iskept in its place in a crease in the cylinder, when the machine is inoperation, by a spring-wire at the bottom of the bellows.y F is amovable bottom of the machine, pressed up into the lower end of thecylinder. It contains seven tubes, through which the air is forced intothe clothes.V

The operation of the machine is as follows:

The clothes having been put in an ordinary tub, warm water and soapadded, the machine is placed square upon the clothes. The pis ton-rodbeing raised and the bellows I'illed with air, the piston-rod is forceddownward, the air condensed and forced into the clothes to any ordinarydepth in the tub. This upward and downward motion ofthe piston-rod,alternately filling and discharging the air-bellows, With the movementof the machine around the tub, soon completes the washing.

The cylinder is made of tin, galvanized iron, copper, or brass. Thebellows is made of canvas or duck cloth. The piston-rod is anordinaryhandle, about three feet in length.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the cylinder A and the.

piston-head O with the valve D, bellows E, and bottom F, as and for thepurpose specied.

HENRY'HAYS MESSENGER.

. Witnesses:

E. H. MINOR, HENRY G. TAYLOR.

